in the front-end wealth and asset management desktop arena.

-- 处于wealth and asset management desktop 【角斗场-->领域】的前沿或领先的位置。

供参考。

front-end

Front-end and back-end are terms used to characterize program interfaces and services relative to the initial user of these interfaces and services. (The "user" may be a human being or a program.) A "front-end" application is one that application users interact with directly. A "back-end" application or program serves indirectly in support of the front-end services, usually by being closer to the required resource or having the capability to communicate with the required resource. The back-end application may interact directly with the front-end or, perhaps more typically, is a program called from an intermediate program that mediates front-end and back-end activities.
For example, the Telephony Application Program Interface (TAPI) is sometimes referred to as a front-end interface for telephone services. A program's TAPI requests are mapped by Microsoft's TAPI Dynamic Link Library programs (an intermediate set of programs) to a "back-end" program or driver that makes the more detailed series of requests to the telephone hardware in the computer.

结合上下文，应该是“客户端”吧。

Along with the acquisition of CAfIT, a player in the [institutional] and funds portfolio management sector, in May last year, this acquisition puts Odyssey in an unparalleled position of strength in terms of functional breadth and coverage in the front-end wealth and asset management desktop arena.

Odyssey大概是做财富/资产管理前台桌面软件的。 不过桌面软件应该都是前台的。 这里的front-end应该和金融没什么关系。


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Note added at 1 hr (2008-01-24 02:58:06 GMT)
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Odyssey Financial Technologies offers leading financial software solutions for the Banking industry.
http://www.odyssey-group.com/
没错。

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-01-24 02:59:42 GMT)
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"Odyssey acquires CAfIT, the specialist provider of Front office software to global asset managers"

"Odyssey Financial Technologies, the leading provider of private banking & wealth management software solutions, today announced the acquisition of CAfIT, a leading specialist provider of Fixed Income, Derivatives & Balanced Fund solutions for global asset management institutions."

http://www.odyssey-group.com/News_2007_0521_PR_CAfITacquisit...



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Note added at 9 hrs (2008-01-24 10:59:58 GMT) Post-grading
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Jinhang Wang: 10:32am Jan 24, 2008 : 前台 容易让人联想到搞接待的，还是前端比较正式些。

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